#2 The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters

My Country Right or Left: 1940-1943

George Orwell
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My Country Right or Left features notes and essays on the Second World War (including two war diaries), reflections on life working for the BBC, reviews of Hitlers Mein Kampf and books by T.S. Eliot, Orwell's "London Letters" to the Partisan Review, and his famous analysis of the English character, "The Lion and the Unicorn." --From the 2000 edition.
Genres: EssaysNonfictionPoliticsJournalismHistoryMemoirCriticismLiteratureBritish LiteratureClassics
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